Keith, you are aware of the law about overhangs on vehicles ? (max of 60% of the distance between the front wheels and the rear of the vehicle IIRC).
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I had a 1990 Checkmate in British Racing Green with a white & green mouldy roof! It was only a 998cc but I did the following:
K&N Air Filter
Tuned Exhaust
LCB Manifold
998 Cooper S Head
1.5 Rockers
Electric Cooling Fan
Modified Carb & Inlet Manifold to Vizzard Spec
Stainless Brake Hoses
EBC PadsTantrum 600.4 Power Amp
Alpine Sub, 300W
MB Quart Component Speakers & custom fibre glass pods
Marantz Head Unit & ChangerIt used to go like stink!! Easily beat a 1275 and many other hot hatches. Have no idea on the top speed, speedo only went to 90 I think, it just kept on going! Fitted Weller 8 Spokes, didn't handle as well, didn't slide predictibly, steering felt numb, so took them off.
Great fun, I miss it, but it was also a money pit!
I dont have any pictures, because it looked totally standard The rust on the A-Panels, Scuttle, Doors, Boot, etc; fooled a lot of people into believing it was a banger!
It did spend more time off the road than on the road, but that was the whole point... It taught me a lot about cars, and why mechanics hate working on them.
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I had three,
'78 Pickup, 998cc, very cool
'84 saloon, 998cc bright orange rustbucket, full length sunroof, bullbars and 12" alloys (orange)
'94 Cooper, 1293cc white with black roof. Ended up binning the fuel injection and having a single SU with stage 3 head, yada, yada, got to 95bhp!
I loved them all, especially the cooper but the tin worm got to it. I have to content myself with a Lancia Integrale these days...
PS. That blue turbo is beautiful...
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I had an old english white pick up. 1400cc, 10 inch wheels, Cooper S discs.
A pal restores them. Mostly 60's Cooper S models. he has an awesome works rep.
http://www.theminiworks.co.uk/Posted 2 years ago # -
Here's a cutting question - can minis and bikes mix?
With regards to carrying bikes: I used to get one inside my 1984 Mini Ritz to go racing, but I did have more spare time back then (it took a while).
Answering the question more generally: The saying used to be "have a crash, lose your legs" - I think because the steering column was rumoured to have a habit of crippling drivers in accidents.
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Still the coolest car ever made though.
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You obviously define cool different to I, but each to his own - they do have a certain uniqueness, and still look fairly appropriate on the roads today, moreso with the revival of smaller cars.
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yep coolest car ever imo too 40 + year in production can't be wrong
no car is ever going to beat that now I doubtcoffeeking, I was assured by a friend who runs a trailer and roof rack centre that it was 1m past either end of the vehicle which I was just!! about within.
not exactly like anybody was going to miss it
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The RSP is the one to have if it's good it's probably the best Mini 'investment' model. I've got a British Open Classic - the most fun car I've ever had - Roll on mid life crisis 3
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keith - looks a lot longer than 1m over to be honest, otherwise I'd not have mentioned it! Must be the way it looks in the image
Regulation 11 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 refers to the permitted overhang on certain classes of vehicles
Heavy motor car and motor car - the maximum overhang is 60 percent of the distance between the transverse plane which passes through the centre or centres of the foremost wheel or wheels and the transverse plane which passes through the foremost point from which the overhang is to be measured.
60% of the distance from the front wheels to the rear of the car. Or, if its a frontal overhang, 60% of the distance from the rear wheels to the front of the car.
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998 Cooper S Head
sorry for being a pedant but Cooper S were 970, 1071 or 1275, Coopers were 998, Cooper S head was also 11 stud not 9 and if fitted to a 998 block the valves would hit the block as all Cooper S had same bore and capacity was varied by stroke length
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My first car was always going to be a mini - and it was: £300 for a badly handpainted 1975 850. Which promptly had a NOS 998 dropped into it, some lovely black centred minlites and a beautiful respray in BMW Mauritius blue.
I left it in storage at my parents' house and was going to restore it when I discovered last year that my mother had sold it. I very nearly disowned her for that..!.
My father, in 1996 bought one of the official Rover convertibles, which he owned as a second car for a few years, and my sister had a Cooper in around 1995 (actually, she had two, having written the first off).
Now, none of us own minis, but i hope those who had our cars have had fun in them..! Well, especially my father's mini, which was bought by a lad from German, who came over with his girlfriend, tried to pay with a German banker's draft and were distraught when it couldn't be accepted. They went home (my parents driving them to the airport), arranged a proper transfer, and came back another time to collect. All happy in the end.
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I've worked on a few, this one recently
It's what the customer wanted!
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Oh dear, I feel an attack of minitis coming on. Was browsing/drooling through a Mini magazine barely an hour ago, and then I see this...
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here's the one soon to be mine!
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Had loads of mins
fave was a 1340 clubman with a beam axle, de seamed very quick.Had a couple of pick ups would be worth a fortune now. Cant believe the money they make these days.
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Votchy i think he meant the 12G295 Cooper head.
I've got a 72 1000 in the garage, needs some attention as it has been stood for a while since i got into mbikes and working abroad.
Did all the normal mods and is now a RSP replica, 80000miles of abuse through my teens and early twenties.
It will fly again........along with all the other projects i have......
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My first car was a 1275GT - sh1t to a blanket......... also had an 1100 clubman at the same time.
So much fun.
Always wanted a Kent Auto Developments conversion. Wonder if they still make them.
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Yep they do google rocks 180bhp fook my old boots
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